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December 21, 2020
8:58 am

Good morning, Father. THANK YOU for all the amazing progress I have made on the Jo Journals series this week, and PLEASE make Amazon finally finish publishing Jo Language within the next few hours, before I send today’s edition of my newsletter! It is supposed to take “up to 72 hours” but I submitted it a week ago today. Not sure if the holidays are slowing the workers or what, but it IS rather frustrating. I am already almost finished with the next book in the series — Jo Bird! :D It is sooooooo cool to finally have figured out the little details of how to create my series of learning journals, and be on my way to publishing them! THANK YOU, Lord! PLEASE keep me motivated and not get discouraged if Amazon drags their feet, or if the books do not sell well at first. I have long wanted to create, even just for myself, print books in a medium size, with a dot grid like a bullet journal, that also have pages for writing in all that I learn — like the vocabulary for foreign languages I like to sample such as Indonesian, Dutch, Greek, French, Mandarin Chinese, and Italian. And for even longer, I have wanted a NATURE journal to inspire me to learn about (and record what I learn!) new species of trees and wildflowers, birds and reptiles. Yay! I am excited! Because NOW, more than ever, a NEW WAY of learning is needed… with some schools doing “home learning” and nearly EVERYONE able to find information easily, at their fingertips 24/7. All the learner REALLY needs is some type of guidance of WHAT to look up online… and a place to jot down notes and draw/fill in little tables and infographics and such… and studies show that this type of working with information, even gathering the information yourself, is MUCH more effective than just sitting and listening to a lecture, in-class. Still, people can listen to or watch lectures in their own homes (or wherever they take their phones!)… and with my little 6×9 learning journals, they can easily write down tidbits of what they learn, both to help them commit it to memory AND to have for review later — even YEARS later! I personally plan to have a whole shelf of Jo Journals that I personally use, and I can’t wait to see what I might be allowed to “create with the Creator” in the future! I am sure my first Jo Journals will be simple and unsophisticated compared to ones that I create a year or more from now… God willing, I hope to improve my technique and content with each new book in the series. Yay! Excited! :D

James 1:2-18 ERV

My brothers and sisters, you will have many kinds of trouble. But this gives you a reason to be very happy. You know that when your faith is tested, you learn to be patient in suffering. If you let that patience work in you, the end result will be good. You will be mature and complete. You will be all that God wants you to be. Do any of you need wisdom? Ask God for it. He is generous and enjoys giving to everyone. So he will give you wisdom. But when you ask God, you must believe. Don’t doubt him. Whoever doubts is like a wave in the sea that is blown up and down by the wind. People like that are thinking two different things at the same time. They can never decide what to do. So they should not think they will receive anything from the Lord. Believers who are poor should be glad that God considers them so important. Believers who are rich should be glad when bad things happen that humble them. Their riches won’t keep them from disappearing as quickly as wildflowers. As the sun rises and gets hotter, its heat dries up the plants, and the flowers fall off. The flowers that were so beautiful are now dead. That’s how it is with the rich. While they are still making plans for their business, they will die. Great blessings belong to those who are tempted and remain faithful! After they have proved their faith, God will give them the reward of eternal life. God promised this to all people who love him. Whenever you feel tempted to do something bad, you should not say, “God is tempting me.” Evil cannot tempt God, and God himself does not tempt anyone. You are tempted by the evil things you want. Your own desire leads you away and traps you. Your desire grows inside you until it results in sin. Then the sin grows bigger and bigger and finally ends in death. My dear brothers and sisters, don’t be fooled about this. Everything good comes from God. Every perfect gift is from him. These good gifts come down from the Father who made all the lights in the sky. But God never changes like the shadows from those lights. He is always the same. God decided to give us life through the true message he sent to us. He wanted us to be the most important of all that he created.

Lord, I ask you to help me be PATIENT. I WANT to devote all my time to my favorite project, right now being Jo Journals. But I ALWAYS have other responsibilities, and at this time in my life those are more than at other times, because I am working outside of the home as well as on my online business. AND I have fallen behind in having materials ready for the biweekly newsletter, so I can devote even less time to my “pet project”. Without running water in our home, I have to drive to the nearest decent size town and work out for an hour or so BEFORE I can even take a shower. The whole thing ends up being a 3+ hour process, JUST to get my body clean. That takes up so much TIME in my week!! BUT I think it is cool that I am forced to keep my body in shape better than ever, since the gym is my only place to take showers, lol. AND I am sooooooo grateful just to HAVE a place to take hot showers… AND the gym is within several miles of all the group homes that I work in, taking care of developmentally disabled adults. I feel very blessed, Lord. Please help me be patient and not worry about the passing of time, and all the things I do not accomplish each day. And PLEASE let our nation stay FREE, allowing me to keep working on my business and driving into town where I go to the gym and to my “day job”. Amen. Lead on, faithful Shepherd!

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